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Episode 16
Perhaps, Joo Wal...
has nothing to do with the Magistrate's mother.
He didn't seem to be lying...
or hiding anything.
That's right.
They might have just happened to run into each other.
Don't go.
What is this?
It was definitely...
that abandoned house.
Why was Joo Wal there?
Did Joo Wal...
take...
the Magistrate's mother there?
What is it?
Let's find out about it together.
Later.
I'll tell you everything later.
I'm sorry, Arang.
I think your death has something to do with my mother
so I couldn't dare tell you.
But, I think now it's time to tell you.
Why was Lee Seol Im...
in that abandoned house...
with Joo Wal?
Where were you this late at night?
I...
have something to say to you.
I also have something to say to you.
Really?
Is she really your mother?
Yes.
But...
how can something like that happen?
I don't know what's going on.
But, I have to find her.
I'll have to find her and put everything back to normal.
Is there a way to find her?
I don't know yet.
I'll have to look for a way.
I've been searching all this time for her.
I can't believe that...
the Great King Jade was my mentor.
I thought the death angel was just uttering nonsense.
Magistrate.
Come to think about...
all the things that we are going through right now...
I don't think it's just coincidence.
The person that taught you how to get rid of ghosts is Great King Jade...
and the person who sent me back as a human being is Great King Jade.
And the thing...
that brought us together...
is Great King Jade's hair pin.
Great King Jade.
I think...
my goal to find the truth of my death...
and your goal to find your mother...
are all part of the Great King Jade's plan.
But, why did he do that?
Whatever the reason, I'll find the truth of my death...
and I'll figure out what that old man is scheming.
Oh, right.
- Magistrate. - Yes?
Can you find the man who killed my caretaker?
Don't worry too much.
I'll catch Excellency Choi and take away the caretaker's painful regrets...
so sleep well.
Okay.
I'm sorry about the thing concerning Joo Wal.
I don't think it's time to tell you about it yet.
When I remember something more specific...
I'll tell you.
Thoroughly search the mountain near Youngnamro and find the body.
Yes!
Let's go!
A day like this has finally come. What should we do?
How can we investigate a murder? What a disgrace.
We didn't even investigate the sudden death of the previous magistrate.
Why do we have to go through this for a caretaker?
Don't you agree, Hyung Bang?
How long has it been since I've been at a crime scene?
That's right. This is what I'm supposed to.
There's going to be a lot of leaves because it was very windy last night.
You might miss the body...
so check thoroughly.
Yes, sir!
What is he doing? That's my job.
Come over here. Check here first.
Scan this area.
Do you not hear me?
Who are you?
I'm the officer, Hyung Bang Do you not know me?
It's over here.
- Go get the Magistrate. - Yes, sir.
This isn't how it's supposed to be.
It's a good thing we found it easily.
She's was not a stranger to me...
so it doesn't feel good.
You should live long and well, your honor.
It's best that you don't see it.
Why? I have to see it.
Don't look.
How can the heavens be so heartless?
How can you send her away like this?
Milady!
You must be cold.
I'm sorry.
Look for the identity tag.
Carefully recover the remains and bring it back to the office.
We also have to arrest the owner of the identity tag.
What is this?
Me? Dol Sue.
What do you think you are doing?
I won't say this twice. Listen well.
Our magistrate said to arrest you for murder immediately.
You slave. What are you talking about?
This first that I heard that your last name was Park.
- Arrest him. - Yes, sir!
Stay still!
What?
Arrest who? Why?
Yes.
It's for murdering the office's caretaker.
What?
They found the body of the caretaker.
They said she was holding Guh Dul's identity tag.
He's so stupid.
He can't even take care of that?
I will... the magistrate
is he trying to start a fight with me?
Send for the officer immediately!
I finally get to see Guh Dul arrested.
It's different with a Magistrate in the office.
Seeing that Guh Dul is being arrested...
I can bear with whatever the Magistrate does.
That bad man!
Thank you for finding my mother, Magistrate.
I almost became...
an unfilial daughter who doesn't even know her mother's death anniversary.
That time...
when my body was found...
the caretaker was crying while holding onto my body.
That's right. She did.
At that time...
I didn't see that.
Because my sadness was too great...
I couldn't see...
the caretaker's sadness.
When I saw the caretaker's body...
I understood it then.
There was someone other than myself...
who cried for me.
If I knew that earlier...
I wouldn't have wandered in the wrong places looking for Lee Seo Im.
Then I would've found out what happened
between me and Joo Wal more easily.
This the Great King Jade plan.
If you had found him immediately, you would've fallen for him.
You did fall for him at first sight, right?
That probably would've happened again.
What? That probably would've happened?
But, are you...
going to stop being a magistrate now that you caught Guh Dul?
Hey, the real criminal is Excellency Choi. How can I stop here?
I thought you were going to.
I'm not that kind of magistrate.
But...
why was Excellency Choi so curious about your identity?
Then...
does Choi Joo Wal also know everything?
Joo Wal?
No. There's no way.
There's no way Lee Seol Im loved someone like that.
There must be a different reason.
Joo Wal.
Were you...
not even once...
curious about how Lee Seol Im died?
Why did she ask something like that all of a sudden?
There's something I want to ask.
Do you remember the late magistrate's daughter?
Her name was Lee Seol Im.
She was engaged to me.
Yes, I do.
I wasn't interested in her at the time. So, I don't even remember her face.
And?
Do you want to see her face now?
It's not that but...
Did I...
kill her, too?
Yes.
You did.
That night she...
followed you to that abandoned house...
and saw everything.
So, she had to die.
You must be really shocked.
Then again...
she almost became your wife.
Why bother asking? You should've just buried that in your heart.
Why do you think I always erase the memories of your murders?
Why did you?
Why?
What do you mean why?
Erasing your memory? Or letting her die?
Both of them.
You ingrate.
You're the one that killed her.
You're the one that brought her there.
What is it?
Are you resenting me for erasing your memories?
It was to help you live.
That's what you wanted.
Do you still feel tormented?
Killing a person is not an easy thing.
But...
how can you be like this every time?
Had I known you were this weak-hearted I would've never taken you in.
Please save me.
You want me to erase it for you again?
I'll erase it.
I can erase it any time.
It's simple. Should I erase it for you?
Yes.
Now do you understand?
Who's the person that helped you live?
Is it still Arang?
Lee Seol Im...
why was she there?
How would I know?
Ask her when you meet her again.
Young Master!
It's not time yet to tell him that Arang is Lee Seol Im.
There will be a time when it will become more useful.
Tell me honestly.
You didn't know either, right?
No matter how good I am at Go...
I can't predict everything.
You probably knew that because you sent Arang.
Moo Yeon would not be able to gain a soul on time.
You also probably knew that she would weaken...
but you didn't know that she would become this weak, right?
That's right.
I didn't know that Kim Eun Ho's mother would be this strong...
it is definitely a variable.
You always sit here pretending to know everything.
It's not so bad to see that
you admit that are still something even you can't predict.
That is why I believe in humans.
Isn't it surprising...
how strong a person's will can be?
By the way, Moo Young...
is still on probation, right?
Moo Yeon.
I don't know which is the right way to save you.
It would've been better if I...
destroyed you with my own hands.
Did you really lose yourself?
Brother.
- Don't call me that. - Brother.
Do you really like this place?
Going back and forth the styx river to bring the dead over...
day in day out...
do you really like it?
Why do you hate this place so much?
They say not to have anything!
What is so bad about wanting to have something?
This place doesn't let you have anything.
Even if I have to roll in mud, it's better to do so in the human world...
where ambition is allowed.
I want to live in the human world.
The life that you wanted in the human world...
is it the life you have right now as a monster?
The men covered up everything but...
I should go there.
I might remember something.
I wanted you to remember that there...
was someone that loved you very much.
Why is he here?
Young man.
Lady.
What brings you here?
I came...
because I was here before.
Before...
there was an abandoned house here.
Do you...
know, too?
No. Not really.
Young man.
I must go now.
Young man.
When Lee Seol Im died...
at that place...
were you there?
Lee Seol Im.
Excellency Kim?
Is he Excellency Kim?
Your Excellency!
Father.
Eun Oh.
Are you well?
Please forgive my rudeness.
It's okay.
I was going to answer you through a letter
but I came here because I was curious.
But...
why did you ask about Excellency Choi?
Actually...
I think mother came to this place to meet Excellency Choi.
What is their relation?
Father.
It's an old story.
Your maternal grandfather was the first vice-minister.
At the time, there were many complaints about...
Excellency Choi, who was the judge at the time.
So, your maternal grandfather tried to punish Excellency Choi for his crimes.
But, Excellency Choi...
created a conspiracy and framed your maternal grandfather.
Your mother just barely saved herself
and the rest of the family...
was brutally killed.
Eun Oh.
You should understand your mother.
It was probably hard for her to just look at you.
Because of her painful regret...
she neglected her child.
How do you think she felt?
That's why she probably came to that decision.
She was going to carry all the burden of the painful regret and disappeared.
She probably decided that was the right thing to do.
That's probably why she left you.
Eun Oh.
Yes, Father.
Taking care of the country is...
the same thing as taking care of the people.
Standing on their side...
and listening to their stories is what you need to do.
Make sure you don't forget this.
I won't forget it.
If something happens send me a letter immediately.
I'll help you.
Did you really come here?
Did you really come here to try to kill him?
I won't leave him alone.
I'll get my revenge on him one day.
Mother.
Mother!
Mother.
Lee Seol Im.
Why is looking for the person that killed you...
and approaching that truth...
why is it...
so painful?
If I want to find the truth...
if I want to go to heaven...
then I have to find him and kill him.
But is that...
really what you want, Lee Seol Im?
Arang.
What are you doing...
in this dark place?
Did something happen?
What is wrong with your face?
What is it?
Fine.
If you don't want to say it right now, then don't.
I don't know what it is...
but until you go to heaven...
don't forget that I'm always beside you.
I found someone who was an in-house servant
at Excellency Choi's house three years ago.
That's right.
Three years ago...
there was a woman that came from Kim Hae.
She worked in the kitchen for a few days.
The kitchen?
She didn't look like someone that would...
but she begged to work at Excellency Choi's house.
In the end, Kim let her in but...
But?
She tried to poison Excellency Choi's soup bowl.
She got caught. It caused a commotion.
She disappeared after that.
We also though it was strange.
He's not someone to let go of something like that.
I got it.
Your honor.
I have a request I would like to make.
Request?
What kind of request?
About the slave labor...
Are you talking about the slave labor?
That's right. Although they're not the subject of slave labor...
they are being called for slave labor. So, go find out what's going on.
Forget it.
I know that it's because Excellency Choi is ordering them.
They're doing it because they're scared.
I know that, too.
That's why I'm telling you to find out what exactly is going on.
Your honor.
Please come out for a moment.
These people say that...
they have something to tell you.
Speak up.
Tell him.
His honor will listen with care.
Step out for a moment.
Yes, sir.
Now, you can speak freely.
Hurry and speak up.
I heard it from Kim...
that you are investigating Excellency Choi's misdeeds...
but you don't know who would speak up.
I did.
With one rice paddy I take care of a family of nine...
but they took that away...
my father committed suicide...
and my mother died of stress.
My son said some bad things about Excellency Choi after drinking...
he got beaten all night and became crippled.
He also became insane.
I couldn't...
pay tax to Excellency Choi...
I had to sell my twelve year old daughter.
Your honor! Please let us live!
- Please let us live! - Your honor!
Your honor, please save us!
What are you doing?
What were you doing all this time until this happened?
I committed a serious crime your Excellency.
How are things going around in the office?
He hired guards...
and he left that servant, Dol Sue, to train them.
As you know, he caught a criminal because the caretaker died.
That's not all.
What more?
The people are strange these days.
The people?
They keep on wanting to talk to the Magistrate.
I don't know what they are telling him.
Are they going in and out of the office?
I got it. Go.
Also...
pass this message to Guh Dul.
Why are you alone these days?
Why are you around my master these days?
Because I want to.
Don't even dream about harming my master.
What do you mean harm?
It's just that I chose a side.
A side?
What side?
I chose his honor.
No matter how much I think about it the Magistrate is my type.
What?
What did you say just now?
Type?
Old man, don't drool over my master.
No, are you giving him your heart?
What are you talking about?
Now it's a ghost and a man?
Just live the way you originally lived. Where are the other officers?
Look here.
How did this..?
You...
how did this happen to you?
This is why you have to be good to...
Don't speak about useless stuff.
Did his Excellency say something?
Of course.
I came here just to give you that message.
When you come out of the prison...
tell Excellency Choi of our goals.
Is he going to get me out?
I don't know about that but he has one message.
What?
'Do you want to live thick and short or do you want to live thin and long?'
What?
Then, we'll go now.
What does that mean?
I sent the message but what does it mean?
Doesn't it mean to keep your mouth shut?
The townspeople are going in and out of the office?
Kim!
Send this letter immediately to the provincial governor of Kyungseong.
Because I said it was unfair for me not to be able to see
now you're letting me see but not hear?
If your going to give me it, give it to me whole.
Damn this half-pieced shaman abilities.
Take it back immediately.
Do you all know?
This is what's called bossam (pork wrapped with Kimchi).
This really tastes good.
The pork is so tender, and it doesn't smell.
It tastes even better with the kimchi.
My future bandit-looking son-in-law
keeps bringing her pork...
to win her over.
The two have been...
feeding each other and sucking on each other's fingers.
I can't look at it with my eyes open.
What is she saying? I can't hear anything.
But how did she know about bossam?
Bossam is...
a word I made up.
Then does that mean she...
knows everything that happened between him and me?
How much does she know?
I don't know if seeing is a good thing or...
hearing is a good thing.
Nothing is going properly now.
Kill with poison?
Yes.
Mother went into that house to get revenge on Excellency Choi.
However, mother...
somehow, got captured...
by that monster and then started living in that house...
What is the identity of the monster?
Can you save your mother from that monster?
I have to save her. I will definitely save her.
What is the relationship between that monster and Excellency Choi?
Excellency Choi.
It's an old talisman.
It's been there since before I was even born...
so there is no way of knowing if the person who wrote the talisman is still live.
If you think about it, that house is a really good spot.
Previous Excellencies also did well, too.
I heard that also the previous Excellency Park did well, too.
Come to think about it...
the actual power of Miryang always came from that house.
I think...
that monster lived in that house even before Excellency Choi came.
From before?
Yes.
All the people that lived there...
with the help of that monster...
was able to gain wealth and power.
Excellency Choi, too.
Then, Excellency Choi...
would never let go of that monster.
He probably hid her somewhere else.
I must find out where that is.
How?
Where were you guys?
I ran away.
Demons kept walking in and out of that place.
I didn't want to run away...
but, they ran away. So, I followed them.
I didn't want to run away...
I was scared of being left alone...
so, I followed them, too.
Then you should have at least told that to me.
Or, you should've never come back.
They say there are no more demons.
Of course, there isn't because of me.
Amongst us ghosts...
there are many rumors about you.
Rumors?
What rumors?
What do they say?
That you are a Magistrate that is scarier than a ghost.
Whatever.
Go undercover at Excellency Choi's house again.
If they show any suspicious movement...
report back to me right away.
Yes!
I'm here.
Okay.
I brought some food.
Okay.
Then, I'll leave it out here.
Magistrate!
Magistrate, what's going on?
Didn't you say you got rid of all the demons?
How could you trick us like that?
What are you talking about?
I have never seen something as scary as that.
It has such a powerful energy, ghosts like us don't dare to approach it.
I finally found it.
Where are you trying to go?
I want to go with you.
It's dangerous. Just stay here.
Let's go together.
There's only a few day left now to be together.
Whatever it is, wouldn't two be better than one?
It's over there. I can't go anymore.
I got it. Good work.
Can it be?
Did that child come?
Stand behind me.
The lady with the nice figure is here.
I am Joo Wal's aunt.
Then, I'll go in now.
Come over one day.
You have a nice figure.
Joo Wal's...
aunt?
What?
It's been a long time, magistrate.
At that time, because I was busy...
I didn't recognize the son.
Are you okay?
This isn't right.
I thought wrong.
Don't come close to me.
Missus.
Wake up!
Don't come close to me.
Missus.
Don't come!
Joo Wal.
What is this?
I don't know.
Move aside.
Who is she?
I don't know.
How did she get here?
I don't know.
On this good holy day...
how can this happen?
She must've seen everything, I can't just send her like this.
I must erase it.
Take care of the rest.
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Lee Seol Im.
Why is finding the person that killed you...
and approaching the truth...
why is it... so painful?
If I want to find the truth...
if I want to go to heaven...
then I have to find him and kill him.
is that what you really want?
What should I do, Arang?
I came all the way here to find the truth of your death and send you to heaven...
but why is my mother involved at the end of it?
Magistrate.
Until you go to heaven...
don't forget that I'm beside you.